Re: [tex-hyphen] Adding support for Hebrew (UNIV: XeTeX, NOT XeLaTeX)

[Philip Taylor]

Philip Taylor wrote:

> Trying to add support for Hebrew to TeX Live 2016, ...

I also note that other ?errors? in hyph-he.tex are preventing PdfTeX/eplain 
from being built :

> (c:/TeX/Live/texmf-local/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/hyph-he.tex
> ! Nonletter.
> l.2 ×
>      1
> ? 
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.2 ×
>      1
> No pages of output.

Why, I wonder, is PdfTeX/eplain even /trying/ to load a patterns file expressed 
in utf-8 ?  My loadhyph-he.tex (which should prevent this) attached.

Philip Taylor

% filename: loadhyph-he.tex
% language: Hebrew (note the leading capital)
%
% Loader for hyphenation patterns, NOT generated by
%     source/generic/hyph-utf8/generate-pattern-loaders.rb
% See also http://tug.org/tex-hyphen (or don't)
%
% Copyright 2008-2013 TeX Users Group.
% You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
% I have. So it is no longer Copyright anybody.
% (But consider adapting the scripts if you need modifications.)
%
% Once it turns out that more than a simple definition is needed,
% these lines may be moved to a separate file.
%
\begingroup
% Test for pTeX
\ifx\kanjiskip\undefined
% Test for native UTF-8 (which gets only a single argument)
% That's Tau (as in Taco or ΤΕΧ, Tau-Epsilon-Chi), a 2-byte UTF-8 character
\def\testengine#1#2!{\def\secondarg{#2}}\testengine Τ!\relax
\ifx\secondarg\empty
    % Unicode-aware engine (such as XeTeX or LuaTeX) only sees a single (2-byte) argument
    \message{UTF-8 Armenian hyphenation patterns}
    % Set \lccode for ZWNJ and ZWJ.
    \lccode"200C="200C
    \lccode"200D="200D
    \input hyph-he.tex
\else
    % 8-bit engine (such as TeX or pdfTeX)
    \message{No Hebrew hyphenation patterns for 8-bit engines}
    %\input zerohyph.tex
\fi\else
    % pTeX
    \message{No Hebrew hyphenation patterns for 8-bit engines}
    %\input zerohyph.tex
\fi
\endgroup